Not hard to do human.
Not hard to do at all.
Better ■■■■■■■ watch it little guy.
They’ll ■■■■■■■ do it, they aren’t kidding.
Not hard to do human.
Not hard to do at all.
Better ■■■■■■■ watch it little guy.
They’ll ■■■■■■■ do it, they aren’t kidding.
bob marley! every time you post, you should add a bob marley song! my mother’s Jamaican and my dad’s from St. Kitts! or is it St. Kitt? when I was a kid, I pronounced it “sinkets.” I had like no idea what he was referring to, until I saw someone wearing a shirt with the words “St Kitts.”
Good old bob.
You know you are a good person when the powers that be try and kill you and then you go put on a concert right after.
Dat’s cool doh, we have asteroids.
So… You’re taking meds as directed and sharing these thoughts with your treatment team, right Pans?
Of course pixel, why wouldn’t i?
You don’t seem to be focused on recovery.
If all you dwell on is misery, that’s all your life will be limited to for you.
I think you deserve better.
I’m just picking up the ■■■■■■■ slack man.
If misery is never confronted nothing gets better for anyone.
Now i have to get back to it.
Uh, your approach is like me trying to lose weight by doubling calories.
Hasn’t worked out too well for me so far, bruh.
I challenge you to spend a week – just one week – only posting positive things.
YOU CAN DO IT!
Against my will I stand beside my own reflection
It’s haunting… how I can’t seem
To find myself again
I disagree. I’ve only found genuine feelings of affection to be “reviving”.
Stare into the darkness! There must be something still…
“And I really think if you left me blind, maimed, and deaf… something would still remain.” Is how I feel at times.
I think posting only positive things is like trying to sustain fire without oxygen. It lacks substance if there’s no affection.
“Deeds, even the most brilliant, mean nothing without love.” - St. Therese of Liseaux
Fake it 'til you make it. ~ AA wisdom (that works)
I like this better though.
You can try the best you can
You can try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
Nervous messed up marionettes!
Floating around on a prison ship!
“Each time I unite myself with someone or something with eagerness of admiration and affection then by that process I have merged momentarily with the Universal.” - Betty White
You know I think there is definitely something to this though for sure.
Especially lining it up with this passage:
"BETTY: Ugh! That looks so uncomfortable, like a fungus growth. It is a horrid-looking thing. She has fed it for so long; now it eats her…
That’s curious; that’s the thing that accompanies everybody. Supposing everything you’d done or thought, the TENDENCY of your life, had a shape;as if your days were bricks and you had built something. And suppose your
eyes were adjusted so that you could see what everybody had built. That is vaguely what I mean when I say people are walking around with a thing that accompanies them: that is the way I see people here. It is a pleasure to see them when they have a balanced growth straight ahead, instead of one of those fungus growths." - from Across the Unknown
There’s another passage however where it seems clear that if you’re surrounded by people who don’t have much sense of life and joy, then it will affect you. They sort of drown you in their lack of it.
…and they are dangerous to those who strive for health and recovery.
Well, I’m saying that it is more likely that is what pans is surrounded by…
It is a common affliction… and it is a quantitative substance. Not easily countered.
He can be prevented from taking others down with him.
I’ve said it before and it is explicated in the book as well…
Positive persons, if they are truly positive, can’t easily be brought down.
“My god she still smiles!” the doctor tells Betty as she was afflicted and on her last legs struggling with tuberculosis.
Therein lies the crux of the matter.
What if a person is someone who skews towards being negative, but strives to be as positive as possible out of recognition that this is the fastest, best path to enhanced quality of life? A person recovering from an abundance of negative thought and behaviour would have to avoid such things in his surrounding environment in the same manner than an alcoholic makes a virtue out of temperance.
BTW, here’s my book that I draw guidance from:
So what is someone to do who needs help to overcome something but gets attacked instead of being offered real affection? There’s a difference with throwing crap at people’s face and telling them to do it than giving them something more through genuine human interaction that isn’t all a facade and pretense.
A positive person can give from their OWN ABUNDANCE. A person who tells someone to ■■■■ off because they don’t like how they’re behaving isn’t a positive person in my opinion.
To me it doesn’t look much different from some rich person telling someone who is poor to go and buy some crap he can’t afford so he can get well.
There are obviously a number of things pans is struggling with that telling him to just “think positive” isn’t going to help him overcome.
I’m seeing it more from an infection vector perspective.
At what point do you stop worrying about the individual that mainly appears to be trying to drag others down with him and start worrying about the majority that is being affected by (or could be affected by) said actions?
Food for thought.